| Summary: | A man identified as Captain George Comer stands in the rigging of a ship identified as the A.T. Gifford, New London. Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. In mount, 14 x 11 in. Captain George Comer (1858-1937) was a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions, and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment. The schooner A.T. Gifford was built in 1883 at Essex, Massachusetts. George Comer was her master during one of his Arctic voyages in which he mapped areas in the Hudson Bay area.
|
|---|